Phages are the most abundant organisms in the biosphere and they are a ubiquitous feature
of prokaryotic existence. A bacteriophage is a virus which infects a bacterium. Archaea are …

Viruses are by far the most abundant'lifeforms' in the oceans and are the reservoir of most of
the genetic diversity in the sea. The estimated 1030 viruses in the ocean, if stretched end to …

Viruses exist wherever life is found. They are a major cause of mortality, a driver of global
geochemical cycles and a reservoir of the greatest genetic diversity on Earth. In the oceans …

The finding that total viral abundance is higher than total prokaryotic abundance and that a
significant fraction of the prokaryotic community is infected with phages in aquatic systems …

Cyanophages infecting the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus
encode and express genes for the photosynthetic light reactions. Sequenced cyanophage …

There are an estimated 10 31 viruses on Earth, most of which are phages that infect
bacteria. Metagenomic analyses have shown that environmental viral communities are …

Viruses are the most common biological entities in the oceans by an order of magnitude.
However, very little is known about their diversity. Here we report a genomic analysis of two …

Viruses, most of which infect microorganisms, are the most abundant biological entities on
the planet. Identifying and measuring the community dynamics of viruses in the environment …

In response to the emergence of pathogenic bacteria that cannot be treated with current
antibiotics, many researchers are revisiting the use of bacteriophages, or phages, to fight …

The majority of the bacterial genome sequences deposited in the National Center for
Biotechnology Information database contain prophage sequences. Analysis of the …